Founders Day and Members Appreciation Day — October 3, 2026

Founders Day and Members Appreciation Day

October 3, 2026

To celebrate our 15th year of operation

Please join us at 9:00 AM on Saturday, October 3, 2026, to celebrate everything we’ve done since the range opened on October 8, 2011.

This will be a fun shoot – two rounds of trap or skeet, or one of each. The machines will have flash targets mixed with regular targets, whoever breaks one will receive a token.

Everyone gets lunch – a green chile cheeseburger, potato salad, chips, and a drink, and additional lunch tickets can be purchased for $5.00 We’ll serve from 11:00 until 12:30, or the food runs out.

All of this for $12 or two tokens. Please join us.

The flyer is available at 2026-founders-day

November Skeet Club Shoot and Luncheon

November 22 will be our last skeet club shoot and luncheon for 2026. The October date will be a normal club shoot as we have had to cancel 2 shoots.

Thunderbird Open Skeet Championship

The Thunderbird Open Skeet Championship

Presented by High Desert Sportsmen
highdesertsportmen.net

Sept 18-20, 2026
5 Guns / 500 targets

The flyer is available at 2026-thunderbird-open

New Mexico Skeet Shooting Association 2026 Championships — October 16-18, 2026

The Chaparral Skeet Club

and the

NEW MEXICO SKEET SHOOTING ASSOCIATION

Present the

79th NEW MEXICO SKEET CHAMPIONSHIPS

October 16-18, 2026
Roswell, New Mexico

Note: As many of you know the New Mexico Skeet Shooting Association is trying to provide the New Mexico High School Clay Target Association (NMHSCTA) shooters the opportunity to participate in this event. If you are able, please try to shoot the doubles on Friday morning and the 12 gauge on Friday afternoon this will give the NMHSCTA shooters a chance to travel Friday morning, shoot doubles Friday afternoon and then shoot 12 gauge on Saturday morning. Below is picture of the gold, silver, and bronze medals that will be awarded to the top 3 NMHSCTA shooters in both the junior and sub-junior concurrent events. The SCTP medalists will be determined by adding both the doubles score and the 12-gauge score together.

The flyer is available at 2026-state-program

For more information contact Brad Thompson at 575-247-1313 or skeetbt@gmail.com

September Meeting Minutes

The minutes of the September 3, 2026 business meeting are available at 2026.09.03

Minutes of all of our meetings, beginning in January 2022, are available at meeting minutes

Volunteers Needed

Members and Friends,

Our facility was established in 2011 and continues to operate thanks to the thousands of volunteer man hours donated by our members. Over the past couple of years we have lost many of our volunteers. Some have moved away and some, quite frankly, have just got too old to help! We need volunteers to open and run the trap and skeet ranges, along with volunteers to help with the sporting clays and 5 stand.

Please review  this letter which summarizes the duties a volunteer would have. If you would like to help, please reach out to the person listed for that venue.

Thank you,
Phillip Pruett
President
Mesilla Valley Shotgun Sports, Inc

Public Trap and Skeet Every Saturday, Sunday, Wednesday

Mesilla Valley Shotgun Sports offers public trap and skeet shooting at the Butterfield Shooting Range every Saturday, Sunday, and Wednesday morning from 8:00 to 11:00 AM.  Come on out for just $7 per round!
NEW! Skeet every Tuesday 8:00 to 11:00 AM and Thursday 4:00 PM to 6:30 PM, too!

Our Mailing List

An email list has been created at https://groups.io/g/mesillavalleyshotgunsports, so we’ll able to get timely announcements to members of the club and other interested people. The list will only be used for announcements from the club to the membership — members will not be able to post to it, and if you reply to a message your response will only go back to the club.  To join the list, enter your email address in the box below and press the Subscribe button:

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After you subscribe, you should receive a confirmation email. If you don’t, send me an email at joseph@pfeifferfamily.net and I’ll try to figure out what’s going on.

If you prefer, you can just send me an email and I’ll add you.